Announcements

Welcome

Welcome to PCBShopper.com! We’re here to serve electronics professionals and hobbyists who are looking for the lowest cost manufacturer for their printed circuit boards. We also want to help you find free PCB CAD software that meets your needs, taking into account that many free packages are limited versions of commercial programs.

We have lots of plans for improving this site. You can subscribe to this Announcements page using RSS for the latest news about improvements to PCBShopper.

QuickturnPCB’s Smart Order Button

U&I, also known as QuickturnPCB, has worked with us to enable a Smart Order button for their site. Smart Order buttons are like regular Order buttons: you click them and go to the manufacturer’s quote form. But with Smart Order buttons, the manufacturer’s form is filled out for you with your board’s specs; the same specs you entered to get prices from PCBShopper.

It’s a very cool feature, and we thank U&I for working with us to implement it.

EasyEDA is now JLCPCB

A while back, EasyEDA was acquired by JLCPCB. They wanted to do a few things on their side before PCBShopper switched over to their new identity, but the work is complete and JLCPCB has now replaced EasyEDA on PCBShopper.

New Manufacturer: AISLER

We’ve just added AISLER to our price comparison calculator. Aisler is a fairly new start-up focused on making PCB prototyping easy. They do their manufacturing in Germany. They offer free standard shipping worldwide, as well as an express shipping service.

More Smart Order Buttons

Elecrow is the latest manufacturer on PCBShopper to implement the Smart Order button, joining PCBWay and ALLPCB. Smart Order buttons are like regular Order buttons: you click them and go to the manufacturer’s quote form. But with Smart Order buttons, the manufacturer’s form is filled out for you with your board’s specs; the same specs you entered to get prices from PCBShopper.

It’s a very cool feature, and we thank Elecrow, PCBWay, and ALLPCB for working with us to implement it.

Improved Shipping Info for Elecrow

You might have noticed that some prices in the “Total with shipping” column are marked “(est.)”. This is because PCBShopper is unable to get shipping information from some manufacturers’ web sites, and so we have to estimate the cost and delivery time. Obviously, it’s better to get that information from the manufacturer’s site.

Elecrow has been working with us to do just that, and the results are now live on PCBShopper. Where we used to show estimated shipping for Elecrow, we now have accurate and exact numbers directly from their site. Thank you for your help, Elecrow!